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Coming up we have a light heavyweight kickboxing rules bout between Mark Sykes (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class) and Ludger Kresnik (ranked 0 p4p, 0 weight class). This should be fireworks!
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220 lbs
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190 cm
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215 lbs
2 - 0 - 0 |
Excellent MT
Very strong
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Excellent boxer
Prefers standup
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Ladies and gentlemen. This fight is 2 rounds, in the light heavyweight division.
Introducing the fighter to my left, fighting out of the red corner.
With a record of
1 - 1 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Mark Sykes!
And introducing the fighter to my right, fighting out of the blue corner.
With a record of
2 - 0 - 0, fighting out of The Island, Ludger Kresnik!
The judges for this bout are Winston Alpacca, Sandra Marshall and Peter Branson.
The bell rings for round one and we are underway!
Kresnik uses some good footwork to avoid the body shot by Sykes.
Kresnik misses with a lunging right hand
and Sykes moves into the clinch.
Sykes makes some space for himself and lands an uppercut.
Kresnik on the defensive, avoiding the knees to the body.
Kresnik misses with a punch on the inside.
Kresnik misses with a hook from the clinch.
Sykes missing with knees to the body.
A right hand to the body from Sykes.
Sykes unloads a knee to the mid-section.
Sykes blocks an uppercut.
Sykes manages to break the clinch.
Sykes closes the distance and clinches.
Sykes definitely looks more muscular than last time we saw him fight.
A head punch on the inside from Kresnik fails to land.
Kresnik fails to land with a short punch on the inside.
Sykes unloads a knee to the mid-section. Kresnik lets out a prehistoric sounding urrrrgh.
A head punch on the inside from Kresnik fails to land.
Kresnik misses with the head strike.
The crowd are loving this. Great action here.
Sykes connects with a nasty looking knee right to Kresnik's face.
It looks like Ludger Kresnik has been cut.
Kresnik lands with a light punch inside.
Knees to the body from Sykes.
Kresnik looks winded!
Kresnik doesn't land with the attempted body shot.
That's one minute gone in the round.
Sykes using the Thai clinch to land knees to the body.
Sykes breaks the clinch and we're back to striking at distance.
Sykes slips a straight right by Kresnik.
Sykes buckles his opponent's knee momentarily with a nice leg kick.
Sykes moves into range and clinches up with Kresnik.
Kresnik swings away with an uppercut that misses.
Sykes lands a body punch in the clinch.
A short uppercut from Sykes.
Sykes lands with a short head shot on the inside.
Sykes breaks the clinch and we return to the middle of the mat.
Sykes lands a nice looking kick to the body. Kresnik takes a step back to recover.
A kick lands to the mid section there for Sykes.
Sykes lands with a right hand.
That's two minutes gone in the round.
Wooooo! Give it up for these two warriors! They are putting on a show!
Kresnik throws the left hand but Sykes avoids the punch easily.
Sykes clinches with his opponent.
Sykes missing with knees to the body.
A right hand to the body from Sykes.
Kresnik working aggressively here.
Sykes works on Kresnik's body with a couple of short punches.
Sykes scores with a shoulder strike.
Kresnik is rocked!
Sykes breaks the clinch momentarily and cracks Kresnik with a big right hook that drops him to the canvas! Kresnik looks like he might be in big trouble here! The referee has started the count straight away and we're up to 5 already. Kresnik get to one knee - can he make it back to his feet? No, he's flopped back to the mat - he's out - this one is all over!
Ladies and gentlemen, after 2:38 of round 1, we have a winner by way of TKO (Punch). Mark Sykes!
After the fight, Mark Sykes was humble in paying tribute to his opponent but made it clear he wants to go on to bigger and better things. It seemed to go down well with the crowd who cheered him loudly.
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energy
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hype
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pop
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mgr
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FIGHT
RATING
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